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Taken out of context I must seem so strange. -- Ani DiFranco
Politicians take something out of context to create problems. -- Anurag Kashyap
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. -- Cat Stevens
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. -- Randall Terry
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. -- Jack Abramoff
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. -- Jack Horner
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. -- Keith Ellison
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. -- Jason Calacanis
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context. -- Nicholas Hoult
Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all. -- Michael Specter
I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context. -- Jerry Perenchio
When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong. -- Thomas Frank
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. -- Nicola Formichetti
I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. -- Alexander Wang
I feel like a quote out of context, -- Ben Folds
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. -- John Szarkowski
Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it. -- Gary Rohrmayer
I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences. -- Suzanne Vega
I don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context. -- Rainbow Rowell
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see. -- Ben Folds
I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context. -- Lemmy Kilmister
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. -- Joe Biden
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history. -- Marjorie Garber
Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context. -- Rush Limbaugh
Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context. -- Rush Limbaugh
That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film. -- Clemence Poesy
Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand. -- Al Ries
If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times. -- Anna Wintour
Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines. -- Kristin Cavallari
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing. -- Daphne Guinness
If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence. -- Justin Trudeau
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context! -- Dan Barker
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say God is love, they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context! -- Dan Barker
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners. -- Jane Fonda
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context! -- Dan Barker
Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition. -- Ross Lovegrove
Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition." -- Ross Lovegrove
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage. -- Jill Greenberg
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. -- Anish Kapoor
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. -- John Kricfalusi
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. -- Diane Wakoski
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration. -- Meg Whitman
We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context. -- Anthony Liccione
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. -- Reed Hastings
I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that. -- Joan Juliet Buck
Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context. -- Biz Stone
Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples. -- Ed Stetzer
Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it. -- John Waters
Personality depends on context, just like culture. Certain people bring out certain traits in each other [...] You don't always see how much other people are shaping you. -- Lily King
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. -- Carroll Quigley

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